MSC Cruises a service of pediatric telemedicina on board of own ships



MSC Cruises is the first company to the world to on board offer to the passengers a service of pediatric telemedicina of the ships from cruise graces to an agreement with Istituto Giannina Gaslini of Genoa. The plan is introduced this morning to Genoa from the managing director of the crocieristica company, Gianni Onorato, and from the general manager of the pediatric institute, Paolo Petralia. The initiative previews uses it of innovative a technological system of transmission of images and data in order to on board allow with the doctors of all the ships of the fleet an always better cure of the children, thanks to the support offered from earth from the expert and specialized staff of Istituto Gaslini. In fact with the new service the doctors on board of the MSC ships Cruises can choose to consult a pediatrician to any hour of the day or the night for having "second opinion" of a specialist or, by previous appointment, in order at a distance to carry out real performances like the telediagnosi, the teleradiologia and the telemonitoraggio.

the technological part of the plan is cured by Carestream, multinational company leader in the systems of diagnostic imaging, than in partnership with Istituto Gaslini the entirely computerized platform has set up in order to qualify the demand for teleconsulto, affording to the doctors of the pediatric hospital to quickly proceed with the refertazione and the diagnosis of the cases.

"With this plan - it has explained Honored - the company ulteriorly strengthens the measures to protection of safety and of the health of its travellers, reserving an attention detail in confronts of more the little ones, than more than other categories they need of various assistance and therapies from those classified ones to other classes of age. We are happy of this collaboration, that it will more and more return to family measure ours "family cruises", date the increasing presence on board, in particular on the summery cruises in the Mediterranean, of target under 18. The pediatric telemedicina is gone to add to other already active services on the ships which those of teleconsulto and teleradiologia, for a vacation in cruise where it will be possible to react to all the necessities".

"the competence of our specialists - Paolo Petralia has commented - is put on also out-of-bounds of the Gaslini and will afford to the doctors of edge of being able to at a distance confirm own diagnoses and therapies making use of a system of transmission of images and data of vanguard. All that confirmation the perspective of the engagement of the Gaslini in order to offer the best cures in every where, developing contextually the most advanced and efficient charitable modalities and of information tecnology".